You Are Not Book.indb - Stephen H. Wolinsky Ph. D.

Prologue / xiii
you came” (to be discussed in detail throughout the text).
This book does not attempt to suggest that the world is
bad, or made of a different SUBSTANCE than THAT SUB-
STANCE. Rather, it is a discussion of “what is” apperceived
(“looks”) like, when the veil parts and “you” “see,” (apperceive)
into the vastness of THAT SUBSTANCE from which the
world is made, arises, with its pleasure and pain, and—like
a puff of smoke—vanishes, “when” THAT is realized.
Beginning a book on the salient understanding of I AM
THAT—YOU ARE NOT seemed like the last thing “I” would
embark upon. However, whether “I” like it or not, “it” or
“THAT,” as “I,” will continue as “long” as it “does.” And “I” as
just a shadowy reflection of THAT, a mere particle of cosmic
dust, a mirage, which did not know it was a mirage, a child
of a barren woman lets it happen. Often, however, it is asked,
“But still even after ‘realization’ the body appears to act and
react. How can this be?” The Bhagavad Gita explains it this
way:
“Even after the wind has ceased blowing, trees may
continue to sway; the fragrance of camphor may remain
in a casket even after the camphor has been used up,
even when a pattering for a song is over, its moving effect
remains; moisture lies on the ground long after water
has been poured on it. Even after an arrow is shot, it
continues its flight until its momentum is lost. When a
potter removes from his wheel the vessel which he has
made, the wheel keeps revolving with the force of its
spinning… even when the sense of individuality comes to
an end, its activity continues.” (Jnaneshwar, Jnaneshwari,
a Song-Sermon on the Bhagavad Gita, p. 259)
This is what “I” attempted to describe to workshop participants
several years ago when “I” said that “I” would stop teaching
Quantum Psychology. “I” would say “I” feel like “I” am on